Burley, Idaho – Business Wire – Snake River Manufacturing (SRM) is pleased to announce an engagement with Chang Industrial (CI) for consulting in strategy and engineering. SRM’s engagement with CI will increase factory automation and launch multiple autonomous and hybrid vehicle initiatives. SRM’s autonomous snow removal vehicles will make snow removal faster and safer while hybrid crop harvesting equipment will make farming more efficient. Autonomous, hybrid and fully electric equipment are the innovative future that SRM is developing today, to make the world more productive.

Grant Flaharty, CEO of Snake River Manufacturing, illuminated the partnership, “Snake River Manufacturing is about to change the trajectory of crop and snow removal equipment as we know it.” Flaharty continued, “Everything that we do going forward will be about growth with disruptive innovation for a sustainable world and we are pleased to have Chang Industrial as our valued partner in such endeavors.”

Matthew Chang, founder of Chang Industrial, shares Flaharty’s enthusiasm: “We are honored to serve as strategy advisor and engineer for Snake River Manufacturing.  Their ethos of American Innovation and “made in the USA” is in complete alignment with our values as a company.”

Chang Industrial is launching three strategic work streams with SRM:

• New Autonomous Vehicle Production – in snow removal vehicles
• Vehicle Updates and Upgrades – conversion to hybrid and fully electric drives for ag and snow removal
• Factory Automation Masterplan – streamline of production and work force enhancements through automation initiatives